Episode Report Card Daniel: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Ice So Nice They Carried it Twice
By Daniel | Season 11 | Episode 13 | Aired on 05.30.2013
Susan gets immediately after Ramsay taps her, so Red wins. Amusingly, Susan seems to think her one point was more crucial than Ja'Nel's three. Classic Susan! Ramsay mocks Anthony for being the only to get everything wrong, and then announces the women are going to enjoy some fresh seafood at Nobu in Malibu and after that they're going horseback riding. They scurry off to get ready.
Ramsay tells Blue they're in for a painful day, because it's delivery day. Zach sighs that he would like to riding horses, "but Chef Anthony has a palate like a bottom of a shoe." He probably couldn't even identify buck chewie!
So they get their back braces on and start unloading, enduring the catcalls of the women as they pass by on their way to Malibu. The restaurant -- right on the beach -- looks spectacular. Not for the first time I want to come to California (and also be ridiculously wealthy). So the women gorge themselves on amazing food while the men sling sacks of food. Anthony gets flour on the red carpet, so they have to clean that up too. Then the bread truck arrives, apparently around the same time the women get on their horses and do their best not to look completely dorky in their horse-riding helmets.
At Hell's Kitchen, four thousand pounds of ice arrive in fifty-pound bags. Anthony signs for it - "Ah, yes. Shitload of ice," he says, which was pretty funny -- and they start hauling it. They don't appear to even have enough room for it all. They're stacking it in the hallways -- generally not an ideal storage place for ice -- when James comes by and is all, "Uh, HOW MUCH ICE DID YOU UNLOAD," and it appears that watching Anthony sign for a "shitload of ice" wasn't just for comedic purposes, but also dramatic ones.
James looks at the invoice and tells them to make sure they've got fifteen of the twenty-five pound bags, and twenty of the fifty-pound bags. Jon and Zach are pissed at Anthony's "nonchalant attitude," and I'm not sure I blame them being pissed for all the extra unloading and then reloading they had to do.
Then it's time to prep both kitchens, which they're doing when the women return, unaware that not all the tension they're sensing is due to jealousy, and that some is due to hatred of Anthony.
The next morning, Anthony knows that his position on the Blue team is pretty shaky, so he resolves to work his ass off. In the dorms, the teams get the call from Ramsay summoning them down to the dining room, where he goes over the top prize again and then reminds them they're getting close to the intermediate prize of the black jacket (one of which lowers dramatically lowers from the ceiling).